2014 SUKIPT Chess

All over Malaysia, MSS chess tournaments have been and will be held. In Selangor, the MSS district tournaments had ended. The Selangor MSSD chess contingents are ready for the MSS Selangor state level tournament to start next Monday at UKM Bangi. MSS Johor will hold its MSS chess championship during the final week of this month. In Kedah, from facebook update the MSS district chess tournaments are on going. 

Sukan IPT (4th - 16th Feb 2014)

SUKIPT chess championship is also being held this week. SUKIPT is the sports competition for all Malaysian higher education institutions both public and private. The sports event is being held in Shah Alam. Chess is one of the 24 sports in the event. In a couple of minutes, the second final round will start. It is getting critical and crucial especially to all aspirant players who would like to represent Malaysia in this year Universiade.

Women Section

In the women section, there are 52 participants. The top seed is WFM Alia Anin Azwa Bakri from University Malaya (UM). She currently leads the pack by one point. Below is the Top 10 Ranking list after Round 9. 

for full list, click here

Men Section

In the men section, there are 80 participants vying for the champion. The top seed is AM Ahmad Fadzil Nayan from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Getting to Round 10, he is currently 3rd place in the Top 10 Ranking list after Round 9. 

for full list, click here

The top two boards for each section is being shown live over the internet. Go to http://broadcast.kedaicatur.com/ to watch the games.

GOOD LUCK to all the players!

MSSD Petaling Perdana (Primary School) Chess Championship

SHAH ALAM - MSSD chess competition for primary school (Under 12) category for Petaling Perdana district started yesterday on Monday. For many years SK Seksyen 9 has been the host. There are two sections as usual which are the Boys and the Girls. The number of players take part this year are 156 in the Boys section and 86 in the Girls section. GiLoCatur's youngest child, Fahim Al-Faqeh, represents his school, SK Bukit Jelutong, in the Boys section. The secondary school category, both Under 15 and Under 18, was held last week.

For information, there are ten (10) districts in Selangor MSS. Petaling Perdana district is one of the biggest in Selangor. Actually, Petaling Perdana was part of Petaling district, while Petaling Utama was the other one. The   MSSD chess championship is a bit early this year because the national-level MSSM will be held in March instead in June as usual. Several districts have carried out their championships while few others will conduct theirs soon. MSSD Kuala Selangor will start its championship today. For Kuala Selangor district, both primary and secondary school categories will be held concurrently. GiLoCatur's only daughter, Anis Fariha, will represent her school in the event.  

Four rounds had completed in the first day of the MSSD Petaling Perdana championship. Another four rounds will be held today.  Good luck to all the participants especially to Fahim and his school chess team. Below are several photos of the MSSD PP chess championship snapped using Nikon L14 digital camera.

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Are you staying in Shah Alam or area nearby?

Do you want to get national rating?

Or Do you want to improve your national rating?

If the answer is YES, let's participate in the following chess tournament.

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Photo Journalism - Cerdik Catur Chess Challenge (Part 1)

Below are several new faces (at least to GiLoCatur) of the Malaysian chess participants in the recent Cerdik Catur Chess Challenge.

Fikri was happy during the tournament since three of his school seniors made their debut participation in a local chess tournament. They are Faiz Zairullail Mohd Yusof, Abdul Kahar Abdul Manaf and Wan Muhammad Shafiq Mohd Shukri.

Right picture, a Klang Tahfiz student

Abdul Kahar of SMK Seksyen 18 (left) versus a "Mat Salleh" player.

Faiz Zarullail, another SMK Seksyen 18 pupil, (left) played black against a 7-year-old Nik Nur Nadzirah, which came all the way from Kelantan with his father, Cikgu Nik Azrihan.

A "lebai muda" can also play chess. The opportunity to participate in chess tournaments shall be given to new players like him. How did he know about the tournament? Via newspaper. So, efforts to advertise local chess tournaments in the newspaper shall be done by the organizer.

Blogger Fireyrook Was Paparazzied by GiLoCatur

Do you know what a paparazzi is? I think many of you know what it is. But by the way let's GiLoCatur explains what the word means.

Taken from Wikipedia, a paparazzi is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people. Paparazzi tend to be independent contractors, unaffiliated with a mainstream media organization.

GiLoCatur became a paparazzi during the recent Cerdik Catur Chess Challenge when candidly took the picture of a Malaysian chess blogger, fireyrook, while he was busy updating his blog. Sportingly, fireyrook was aware and allowed himself to be photographed so the element of paparazzi was not really there. LOL

Do you notice the ICT tools or gadgets used by fireyrook for him to carry out his mobile blogging? What really caught GiLoCatur's attention and eyes is the P1 wireless modem. It looks sophisticated eh, compared to GiLoCatur's celcom broadband modem.

But anyway, GiLoCatur hopes Mr fireyrook keeps on blogging and updating his chess blogs to provide latest news, info and updates particularly to the Malaysian chess community. WELL DONE and KUDOS to fireyrook.

Cerdik Catur Chess Challenge - The Report

On last Sunday dated 8th August 2010, a chess tournament named the Cerdik Catur Chess Challenge was held in Section 7, Shah Alam the capital state of Selangor. It was held at Raja Muda Musa hall (below picture) of the Selangor Youth & Sports Complex. About 100 participants both Shah Alam and non-Shah Alam residents were participating in the event.

The chess tournament used G/25 seven SWISS rounds format. The first round kicked off at around 10.00am and ended at around 6.00pm. GiLoCatur did not participate but both sons did.

Syakir - The Champion

Syakir Shazmeer, the Form 4 student of Sekolah Menengah Sains Kuala Selangor, emerged as the champion after scoring 6.5/7 points. He led by halfpoint. He drew with Ahmad Fadzil Nayan in the sixth round and won all the other rounds.

Fadzil Nayan - The First Runner Up

Ahmad Fadzil Nayan, the top seed, whose home state is Perak won the first runner up. Beside drew with the champion, he also drew with Syazwan Zulkifli, a UM student, in the fifth round. He scored 6/7 rounds after 5 wins and 2 draws.

Fikri Saleh - The Second Runner Up

The 14-year-old Fikri Saleh of Shah Alam was the 2nd runner up. He accumulated 6/7 points after 6 wins and 1 loss. But he had lower tie break than Fadzil Nayan. Ranked 9th, he defeated Mohd Firdaus in the final round. He was beaten by his MSS Selangor U15 team mate, Irfan Haqqim, in the fifth round playing black.

Raimi Rahim - The Fourth place

The fourth place went to a teenager named Mohamad Raimi Rahim. He defeated two veteran players - Shamsuddin Sabri aka fireyrook and Ibrahim Nash in the fourth and fifth round respectively. In the sixth round, he defeated Iskandar Rashid.

Syazwan Zulkifli - The Fifth Place

Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli, the third seed, was placed fifth in the tournament. He scored 5.5/7 points. He drew once against his buddy, Fadzil, and was defeated by the champion in the final round.

Go to http://malaysianchesspairings.blogspot.com/ to see the pairings of the tournament. GiLoCatur missed to snap the first round pairings. Actually, some of the participants are debutants or rookies in chess tournaments. GiLoCatur will show some of their pictures in later entry.

Fireyrook, who also participated in the tournament, also had a report on his chess blog as per here.

JAYATI BLITZ Mini Tournament - 8 Jan 2010

On Friday night of 8 January 2010, GiLoCatur and Fikri, the eldest son, for the first time joined the 17ChessClub gang on a Friday Night Blitz mini tournament. Besides having a practice session, a Blitz mini-tournament of five rounds had been held. The playing venue is Jayati Restaurant located in Section 17 of Shah Alam.

And for the first time, GiLoCatur had officiated a chess tournament. Basically, not being an arbiter yet but a pairing manager. What a wonderful experience for GiLoCatur to learn how to do chess pairings.

Eight players were playing including GiLoCatur. The format was a 5-minute blitz. Below is the final results.

Ranking and cross table after Round 5.

The Rating Results Table

Sahir, the first seed with 1649 MCF-rating, won four games and drew one to be the champion. He drew with Syed in the fourth round. Zahorin or simply known as Yen Fischer, who is ranked fifth with 1551 MCF rating, was second place after scoring 3.5/5 points. GiLoCatur, being the lowest-rated player, had lost all the five games and placed last. LOL!

Bro Mudin had a game with Haq.

Syed (left) and Zali aka Ng6 (right) watched by Akmal (in the middle)

Max (left) versus Yen Fischer (right)

Fikri (left) versus Sahir (right)

Maybe next time other players can join the tournament. Hopefully, such activity can encourage and motivate others to have similar chess session and play at other places.

We have many chess fanatics or GiLoCaturs in this country for sure.

The Photos of Shah Alam Team Championship League - Round 2 (26/6/2009)

"GiLoCatur Gambit" players (from left) Azam, Fikri, Shamsuddin aka Firey_Rook (http://fireyrook.blogspot.com/) and Fauzi. The team won 4 - 0 against its opponent team.

Fauzi (red shirt) vs Fauzi on the fourth board and Syed Remizan vs Sham aka Firey_Rook on the third board.

Max (left) and Akmal of 17ChessClub. Their team also won convincingly 4 - 0.

Sahir (left) and Syed.

Firdaus (blue shirt) and his team mate againts 17ChessClub.

Azam and Fikri on the first and second board respectively.

A weekly club chess league like this hopefully will flourish and bloom the local chess sport especially in Shah Alam. GiLoCatur hopes that such weekly chess tournament will be organized more and more. Surely, the more consistant chess tournaments, the better chess quality in this country. Hopefully, the participation of Malaysian young chess players will increase time to time. Our young chess players should be serious in chess. They are our hope. When this happen, insya Allah, Malaysia will have Grand Masters no doubt.

MBSA / Shah Alam Chess Tournament - The Results

Yesterday, there was a chess tournament held by MBSA (Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam) at Dewan MBSA Seksyen 4, Shah Alam. There are three categories for each Shah Alam residents and open (for all). The tournament uses six-round Swiss system which attracted 60 players for 15 & above category, 20 players for Under 15 category and 44 players for Under 12 category. 

Below are the results :

Under 12 - shah alam

1. Nur Najiha Azman
2. Aminur Nirza Azrin
3. Arif Mohd Jamil
4. Muhd Farhan Zamri
5. Nur Faqihah Aminuddin
6. Anis Fariha Saleh
7. Affan Amrish Mohd Jalani
8. Ahmad Furqan Mohd Abd Kadir

Under 15 - shah alam

1. Fikri Bin Saleh
2. Muhd Syahmi
3. Mohd Azfar Mohd Sabri
4. Afiq Adli Razali
5. Vegram Murail (Murali?)
6. Ahmad Zarief Mohd Razief
7. Abd Azim Abd Malik
8. S Marvain Sukumar

15 & Above - shah alam

1. Abdul Haq M Said
2. Nur Nabila Azman
3. Azman Hisham Che Doi

Under 12 - open

1. Nur Najiha Azman
2. Muhd Fikri Farizal
3. Nurul Hana Shuhada Mohd Sulkifly
4. Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa Azhar
5. Aminur Nirza Azrin
6. Muhd Zulfikri Mohd Sulkifly
7. Puteri rifqah Fahada Azhar
8. Aiman Syahmi Ahmad Sabri

Under 15 - open

1. Muhd Syakir Shazmeer Azhar
2. Amira Shamina Zulkafli
3. Muhd Irfan Haqqim Azhar
4. Nurul Adlina Mohd Sulkifly
5. Fikri Bin Saleh
6. Muhd Zuhairi Mohd Sulkifly
7. Farah Amirah Farizal
8. Fatin Nadia Ahmad Sabri

15 & Above - open

1. Ian Udani
2. Nicholas Chan
3. Abdullah Che Hassan
4. Kamaluddin Yusof
5. Mohd Saprin Sabri
6. Tun Seri Lanang
7. Mohd Fadli Zakaria aka stonemaster
8. Abdul Haq M Said

GiLoCatur observed and chit chatted with few participants. One of them is a lady teacher from Batu Pahat. She and few of her family members came down from Batu Pahat, at least 3-hours driving, to Shah Alam for a weekend gateaway dan participated in a chess tournament. What an effort. They just participated in the recent 13th Bandaraya JB Chess tournament. And now want to have more. GiLoCatur salutes to such effort and encouraged her to more committed and be serious in chess. Hopefully, GiLoCatur will see again the lady teacher and her family members in other chess tournaments.

GiLoCatur also chit chatted with one of chess opponents and another player who just participated for the first time in chess tournament. The former participated in this year's MSSD Petaling Perdana and got 5 points. Not bad after all.  GiLoCatur encouraged him, Muhd Azim Anwar Noor, to participate in more chess tournaments especially in Shah Alam. By the way GiLoCatur lost to him in round 3. 

GiLoCatur believes many more people will participate in chess tournaments. The important thing is the promotion especially from the organizers. Chess tournaments shall be made attractive and interesting for people to participate. Chess players also should play their active role in promoting and encouraging their friends and relatives to play chess and participate in chess tournaments. Prizes also should be given to new comers or Under 1200 category for example.    

 

1st OLE-OLE SHAH ALAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Dear Chess Friends,

The Ole-Ole Shopping Centre, Seksyen 18 Shah Alam will be organizing the 1st OLE-OLE SHAH ALAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP on 13th June 2009 (Saturday).

Venue: 1st Floor, Ole Ole Shopping Centre, Seksyen 18, 40200 Shah Alam
Format: 25 minutes per player/ Swiss system/ 6 rounds

Entry Fees:
Open: from Shah Alam (RM15), Others (RM20)
Under 12: from Shah Alam (RM10), Others (RM15)

• Only the first 100 entries will be accepted
• Registration closing date: 11th June 2009 (Thursday)

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Registration : 9:00 am - 9:30 am
Round 1 - 3 : 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch Break : 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Round 4 - 6 : 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Prize giving and closing ceremony : 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

For entry form, email to mychessdiari@gmail.com
Tournament details: http://mychessdiari.blogspot.com/2009/04/ole-ole-shah-alam-chess-championship.html

For further information, kindly contact:

Roslina Marmono
Tournament Director
013-394 5690

MSSD Petaling Perdana (Primary Schools) Chess Tournament

MSSD Petaling Perdana Chess Tournament for secondary schools had been done last week. Next week the event for primary schools will be carried out at SK Seksyen 9, Shah Alam. GiLoCatur's daughter, Anis Fariha, will represent her school i.e. SK Bukit Jelutong. Last year she was in Girls Team B, while this year she will be leading the Team A. 

His elder brother, Fikri, got second place in Boys 15 category. He will be representing Petaling Perdana District in the MSSS event. Hopefully this year Anis will follow him too by winning the slot to represent the district in Girls 12.

To know who are her teammates to the tournament, check out this URL - http://skbjchessclub.blogspot.com/2009/02/skbj-mssd-2009-chess-team.html.

SMK SEKSYEN 18 Results in MSSD Petaling Perdana Chess Championship

SMK Seksyen 18 Chess Team

Below are the chess team players for SMK Seksyen 18.

Boys 18 Team

1. M Hanif (5 Umar)
   
2. M Anwar Zambri (5 Umar)
   
3. Wan M Syakirin (5 Umar)
   
4. W M Razif (5 Umar)
   

Girls 18 Team 

1. Iylia Athira (5 Hamzah)
   
2. Durrah Ain (5 Anas)
   
3. Nurhusnina (4 Uthman)
   
4. Sakinah (4 Umar)
   

Boys 15 Team

1. Fikri Bin Saleh (1 Anas)
   
2. Wan Mohd Syafiq (3 Abu Bakar)
   
3. M Fikri Mansor (3 Abu Bakar)
   
4. Asyraf Hafizudin (2 Anas)
   

Girls 15 Team

1. Nurhaziqah Izan
   
2. Nurul Alia Sham
   
3. Nurul Aqilah
   
4. Ana Syakirah
   

SMK Seksyen 18 Boys Team

SMK Seksyen 18 Girls Team

Two of SMK Seksyen 18 chess players won the top 10 medalist in the recent MSSD Petaling Perdana Chess Championship held at SMK SSAAS, Section 2, Shah Alam. Fikri Saleh of 1 Anas won 2nd place in Boys 15 category after winning 7 rounds out of 8 total. He lost only to Low Jun Jian of SMK USJ 12, the eventual champion. By such winning, Fikri will represent PPD Petaling Perdana in the state-level chess championship in next two weeks.

Fikri Bin Saleh (1 Anas)

Nurhusnina of 4 Uthman won the 10th place in Girls 18 category. She only lost 2 games and scores 6 points. Since she is still in Form 4, she has the chance in next year's event.

Nurhusnina (4 Uthman)

In the team event, below is the results for SMK Seksyen 18 Chess team.

Boys 18 - 22nd place out of 45 with 16 points.

Girls 18 - 8th place out of 25 with 18 points.

Boys 15 - 7th place out of 32 with 19.5 points.

Girls 15 - 8th place out of 22 with 17 points.

Fikri and  Bukahri, both 2nd place in Boys 15 and Boys 18 respectively.

MSSD PETALING PERDANA (SECONDARY SCHOOLS) CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

MSSD Petaling Perdana chess tournament had just completed yesterday. It was a two-day event held at SMK SSAAS (Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah) in Section 2, Shah Alam. The 8-round tournament was held in Dewan Tun Sri Lanang of the hosting school. Three rounds had been played on the first day which was on 10th February whereas the other five had been carried out on the second day, Wednesday 11th February.

The tournament is divided into four categories - Boys 18, Girls 18, Boys 15 and Girls 15. Boys 18 category attracted the most participants. 169 players from more than 4o schools took part for the category. Boys 15 category follows with 121 participants from 32 schools. The girls category had lower participants where Girls 18 had 84 players from 25 schools while Girls 15 just had 75 players from 22 different schools. 

The lower participation from girls shall be studied since most schools are co-ed. Is it girls do not (and can not) play (or have interest) chess as the boys? Or is it the girls are more focus on their studying than the boys? GiLoCatur hopes the relevant authority and parties like Jabatan Pendidikan, PPD and schools will look into this matter seriously in order to bring back the glory in Malaysian schools co-curriculum, sports in the country and provide opportunities for our young generation to develop their capability, skills and talent. GiLocatur also challenge all the girls in Malaysia to excel in all aspects of co-curriculum similar to the boys. 

And below are the winners for each category. The top four winners from each category will represent Petaling Perdana District in the next Selangor (state-level) Chess Championship to be held in Sepang from 23rd to 26th February.

Boys 18

1. Joshua (SMK Subang Utama)
   
2. M Bukhari (SMK Seri Indah)
   
3. Azwan Ansori (SMK Alam Megah 2)
   
4. Ang Jian Yao (SMK USJ 12)
   
5. Eng Pi Xern (SMK Seafield)
   
6. Shahrul Amin (SMK Seksyen 24)
   
7. M Razuqni M Razali (SMK Seksyen 7)
   
8. Yong Bang Xian (SMK Taman Sri Muda)
   
9. Teh Wee Zhun (SMK USJ 12)
   
10. M Syafiq Aminudin (SAM TTAJ)
    

Girls 18

1. Musfirah (SAM TTAJ)
   
2. Choong Sy Yiing (SMK SubangUtama)
   
3. Hazirah (SMK Seksyen 9)
   
4. Atiya Najiyah (SMK Seksyen 19)
   
5. Siti Hajar (SAM TTAJ)
   
6. Nur Syuhada (SAM Bestari)
   
7. Nur Asyiqin (SAM Bestari)
   
8. Lim Wei Mund (SMK Seafield)
   
9. Chim Ei Lynn (SMK USJ 8)
   
10. Nurhusnina (SMK Seksyen 18)
    

Boys 15

1. Low Jun Jian (SMK USJ 12)
   
2. Fikri Bin Saleh (SMK Seksyen 18)
   
3. M Iskandar (SMK Seksyen 19)
   
4. Low Jun Keat (SMK USJ 12)
   
5. Samuel Tan WK (SMK Subang Jaya)
   
6. Ashman Raziuddin (SMK Bukit Jelutong)
   
7. Tiam Wen Yong (SMK Subang Utama)
   
8. Chen Chuin Hao (SMK Subang Utama)
   
9. A Hafiz Amri (SMK TTDI Jaya)
   
10. Samuel (SMK Subang Utama)
    

Girls 15

1. Winnie Hong (SMK Bukit Jelutong)
   
2. Vickie Hong (SMK Bukit Jelutong)
   
3. Nur Fariha M Jamri (SAM Bestari)
   
4. Nurul Adlina (SMK Seri Indah)
   
5. Nur Amalina (SAM TTAJ)
   
6. Nur Khairunnisa (SMK SSAAS)
   
7. Nur Raidah (SMK Seri Indah)
   
8. Nur Irsalina (SMK Bukit Jelutong)
   
9. Amirah Fazira (SMK Bukit Jelutong)
   
10. Nurul Atiqa (SAM Bestari)

School Team Winners

Boys 18

1. SMK USJ 12
   
2. SMK Subang Utama
   
3. SMK Seafield (A)
   
4. SAM TTAJ
   

Girls 18

1. SAM TTAJ
   
2. SAM Bestari
   
3. SMK SSAAS
   
4. SMK USJ 8
   

Boys 15

1. SMK Subang Utama (B)
   
2. SMK USJ 12 (A)
   
3. SAM Bestari
   
4. SMK Bukit Jelutong
   

Girls 15

1. SMK Bukit Jelutong
   
2. SAM Bestari
   
3. SMK Seri Indah
   
4. SMK SSAAS
   

Below are some of GiLoCatur's observation on the results of the MSSD Petaling Perdana (secondary schools) tournament.

• There are few sibblings among the winners especially to represent the PP District - Low Jun Jian and Low Jun Keat (Boys 15), Winnie and Vicky Hong (Girls 15), and M Bukhari (Boys 18) and Nurul Adlina (Girls 15)

• SMK Bukit Jelutong has strong Under 15 teams while SAM TTAJ has strong Under 18 teams

• SMK Bukit Jelutong Girls 15 team is so dominant where all its team members are among the top 10 winners

• SMK SSAAS has strong Girls teams whereas SMK USJ 12 has strong Boys teams

• SAM Bestari has strong teams in all categories except Boys 18

TAHNIAH! to all the winners. GOOD LUCK! to all players who will represent the PP District in the state-level chess championship. For those who are not among the winners list, DO NOT GIVE UP. LEARN and PRACTICE MORE. BE SERIOUS IN CHESS. DO NOT JUST PARTICIPATE TO GET THE CERTS. BECAUSE CHESS HAS LOTS OF BENEFITS AND WILL HELP THEM IN THEIR STUDYING.

GiLoCatur also hopes that the school chess club teachers will be more serious in their school chess teams by providing chess facilities and programs, chess coaching and practices and chess tournaments experiences.